{"id":102187,"date":"2018-06-19T11:04:20","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T11:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=102187"},"modified":"2025-07-01T23:24:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T06:24:37","slug":"algerian-internet-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/algerian-internet-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Nowhere left for cheats to hide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever been annoyed as a teacher has taken your phone from you just as you entered an exam hall? This is a modern phenomenon, it wasn\u2019t long before phones could only call and not much longer before you only had them in your house, but these days it is a regular occurrence. Smartphones put the power of the internet in our pockets, and accordingly, they\u2019re incredible tools for cheating on exams.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"reddit-card\" ><p>      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Unexpected\/comments\/8s00rc\/asking_holy_spirits_to_help\/?ref_source=embed&amp;ref=share\">Asking holy spirits to help<\/a> from      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Unexpected\/\">Unexpected<\/a>    <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>    <script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.redditmedia.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>So some teachers take phones, but in Algeria, they\u2019ve gone one further. To prevent people from cheating on exams, they cut off internet access across the country from June 20 to June 25. The hardline stance comes after high school exams were leaked online back in 2016. Last year social media was banned, but this year they\u2019ve gone one further and cut off the whole internet.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_94955\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-94955\" style=\"width: 243px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-94955\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2017\/11\/web-passowrd-243x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"243\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2017\/11\/web-passowrd-243x300.jpg 243w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2017\/11\/web-passowrd-768x949.jpg 768w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2017\/11\/web-passowrd-829x1024.jpg 829w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2017\/11\/web-passowrd-1200x1482.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-94955\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Internet on lockdown<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Internet services will be switched off for two to three hours a day once exams get started, but <a href=\"https:\/\/redirect.viglink.com\/?format=go&amp;jsonp=vglnk_152966506408611&amp;key=ce074976249105acf14d8c9cf69bdcd1&amp;libId=jipp492901003n6p000DA5734d1it&amp;loc=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnet.com%2Fnews%2Falgeria-turns-off-the-internet-blocks-facebook-nationwide-during-student-exams%2F%23ftag%3DCAD590a51e&amp;v=1&amp;out=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.com%2Fnews%2Fworld-africa-44557028&amp;ref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.netvibes.com%2Fdashboard%2F91403755&amp;title=Algeria%20turns%20off%20the%20internet%2C%20blocks%20Facebook%20nationwide%20during%20student%20exams%20-%20CNET&amp;txt=reports\">Facebook will be off for the entire period<\/a>. Clearly, this story can still go further, and we\u2019ll wait and see what happens next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever been annoyed as a teacher has taken your phone from you just as you entered an exam hall? This is a modern phenomenon, it wasn\u2019t long before phones could only call and not much longer before you only had them in your house, but these days it is a regular occurrence. Smartphones &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/algerian-internet-ban\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Nowhere left for cheats to hide&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9073,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[1059,1027,1035],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-102187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-facebook","tag-security","tag-social-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9073"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327855,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102187\/revisions\/327855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102187"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=102187"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=102187"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=102187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}